Using percentages with img size attributes

Hi,
    I've been attempting to create a tabled layout with the following
structure:

    A cell in the centre with the main content (text, images, whatever)
    A border - made up of images - around the outside of that cell, which
stretches the images to be the correct length.

    i.e. (if this actually stays correctly formatted when your email viewer
displays it):

    ________________________
   |__|___________________|__|
   |    |                                      |    |
   |    |                                      |    |
   |    |             Content             |    |
   |    |                                      |    |
   |__|___________________|__|
   |__|___________________|__|

I've got it working fine under Internet Explorer (versions 5 and 4), however
Netscape will not stretch the images.

The HTML I've used is:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="15%" height="40%">
    <tr valign="bottom">
     <td><img align="top" border="0" src="topleftcorner.gif" width="50"
height="50"></td>
     <td><img align="top" border="0" src="topside.gif" width="100%"
height="50"></td>
     <td><img align="top" border="0" src="toprightcorner.gif" width="50"
height="50"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="top">
     <td><img align="top" border="0" src="leftside.gif" width="50"
height="100%"></td>
     <td>
     <!-- Main content is in here -->
     </td>
     <td><img align="top" border="0" src="rightside.gif" width="50"
height="100%"></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="top">
     <td><img align="top" border="0" src="bottomleftcorner.gif" width="50"
height="50"></td>
     <td><img align="top" border="0" src="bottomside.gif" width="100%"
height="50"></td>
     <td><img align="top" border="0" src="bottomrightcorner.gif" width="50"
height="50"></td>
    </tr>
   </table>

Any ideas welcomed as to how I can achieve the desired effect...

Cheers,

Stephen

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